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  • af Ruth Binney
    152,95 kr.

    Allotment gardening has never been more popular, and there is no more satisfying way to grow your own fresh produce. But getting an allotment into shape and raising healthy plants is a constant challenge. With this commonsense, practical guide you'll discover all the best ways to plan and tend your plot year by year, choose the newest and best disease resistant varieties, and find a wealth of ideas for enjoying your abundant harvest in the kitchen. Attractively illustrated as well as practical, it is also a perfect gift for any allotment gardener. With sound advice based on experience, and dozens of invaluable hints and tips, you'll find the answers here to the perennial questions that are key to allotment success, including:What's be best way of making compost - and how can worms help?Why are raised beds so good for growing carrots?How and why is it essential to rotate your crops every year?Which vegetables are best planted in blocks, not rows?Is it ever possible to stop slugs in their tracks and deter pigeons? How can you avoid gluts of courgettes? And what are the best and different ways to enjoy them?Which fruit and vegetables are most successful for making jams and chutneys?With dozens of 'Allotment Choices' for recommended varieties, from old heritage favourites to the exciting newest arrivals like black tomatoes and purple kale, there are so many wonderful plants to grow, whether you're new to an allotment or already working the soil. From fork to table, Grow It! is the book you need to inspire and guide your gardening adventure.

  • af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: English Countryside explores the flora and fauna, customs and traditions that give the English countryside its unique charm and special identity.

  • af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    The flower garden is so much more than a beautiful spectacle full of colour and scent. It holds hidden in its grasp a myriad of secrets which not only present its magnificent blooms in a new light but reveal a history as long as human civilisation.

  • af Ruth Binney
    163,95 kr.

    A fascinating compilation of accumulated wisdom, from health tips and kitchen tricks to gardening know-how, this splendid hardcover volume examines the truth behind many proverbs and old wives' tales.

  • af Ruth Binney
    188,95 kr.

    This charmingly illustrated hardcover gift edition provides a treasury of ancient wisdom, stories, and superstitions related to plant life. Its mix of fact and fancy will captivate lovers of plants and gardens.

  • af Ruth Binney
    143,95 kr.

  • af Ruth Binney & Rob Oyston
    103,95 kr.

  • af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    The coast of Britain and Ireland measures some 12,000 miles and thats not counting dozens of offshore islands. This book explores everything from structures both natural and manmade, wildlife and natural history and even myths and legends.

  • - Verdicts on the garden's friends and foes
    af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    Are the creatures that live in your garden friends or foes? How can you discourage the bad and nurture the good? How does each animal fit into the essential garden ecosystem? Find the answers in the verdicts, evidence and treatments presented inside!

  • - Behind closed doors
    af Ruth Binney
    178,95 kr.

    With a foreword by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey who concludes that: `This is the world that Ruth Binney has brought so wonderfully to life in her book'.

  • af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    A weed is simply a plant in the wrong place at the wrong time. But while no gardener wants their patch full of unwelcome invaders, even the worst weeds have their good points - they may be edible, attract bees and butterflies, have medicinal or other useful qualities, or be associated with ancient practices, myths and folklore.

  • - Exploring the meaning and magic of numbers
    af Ruth Binney
    153,95 kr.

    This fascinating new book explores the world of numbers from pin numbers to book titles, and from the sixfold shape of snowflakes to the way our roads, houses and telephone numbers are designated in fact and fiction.

  • - The wisdom and wonder of animals revealed
    af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    Gathered together in this fascinating book are the lore and legends of the animal world, alongside the realities of nature. Yet whatever their natural attributes, in folklore animals can do almost anything.

  • - The wisdom and wonder of plants and flowers revealed
    af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    Trying to understand the wonders of the natural world has been a human preoccupation. The knowledge of which plants to use as essential foods, remedies, and for construction was of obvious importance, not only to learn but also to pass on.

  • af Ruth Binney
    118,95 kr.

    This fascinating compilation of accumulated wisdom includes traditional sayings and superstitions to explain whether, and why, they still work today. With advice on the practical necessities of cooking, gardening, housekeeping and health, as well as proverbial wisdom concerning good behaviour for children, adults and life in general.